Was driving around looking for a place for dinner. Drove past this place and of course the sign caught my eye, so decided to check it out. Â We saw it was pretty happening. Â As we walked up, the smell of food was making my stomach rumble. Â We didn't have a reservation but they seated us. Â We ordered the house pinot noir. Â Normally, I am not a house wine kind of person but, it was very good. I was impressed. Â We ordered the bacon wrapped pork loin and the pulled pork sliders. Â Excellent! Â The service was awesome and the ambience was inviting. Â Will definitely be back here again.
Review Source:It's kind of sad that this place is getting such mediocre reviews. Â The area needs more nice date bars instead of crappy dive bars. Â However, after visiting, I kind of see their point. Â I went out on a Saturday night with some girlfriends and sat outside. Â And after a little while, you do forget that your main view is of a Shop Rite. Â The wine selection is huge. Â I got the house wine - generous pours, decent price, decent house wine. Â We had a brie app which was just OK. Â For dinner I got a meatless salad, and my friends got meat entrees. Â I liked my salad, but they thought their meat was overcooked. Â Overall, I would give 5 stars for the wine/bar experience and 3 for food. Â I would definitely come back again, but maybe just for drinks or happy hour.
Review Source:Went to Rosie's the Friday before Memorial Day for drinks with some friends at about 6:30. Â They had a great wine selection but since the service was so terrible we only had one glass of wine. The waiter/bartender who came over seemed genuinely put out that we asked questions about the seasonal menu- which listed the word "winter" in at least two of the titles. Â He said the menu was always the same- they just changed the name from "winter" to "spring" and hadn't gotten around to it yet. Â Though he did come back pretty quickly with our wine, cheese plate, and hummus, that's the last we saw of him- or any server for over an hour. Â The bartender and host passed by several times (we were seated right by the door so neither one coul miss us when he was going in and out servicing the people outside) and though we tried to flag them down a few times, gave up. Â We easily could have had at least one or two more rounds of drinks, but I guess they didn't want us to spend more money! Â Too bad.
Review Source:I had such high hopes for Rosie's after nearly every person I've met since moving to town has recommended it, but I couldn't have been more unexcited about the reality. Â The menu is all over the place, calling it "eclectic" would be kind. Â I went for safe nibbles with my wine. Â The cheese plate was dry and served on top of iceberg lettuce, even the apples were soft and mealy. Â The wine might be better by the bottle, but by the glass, I was really unimpressed. Â Plenty of $10 bottles at the $12 a glass point. Â And the ambience was boring. Â I'd like to say that I would give it another shot but I won't. Â It's priced like a Manhattan wine bar but offers nothing to justify it. Â I give it two stars because while the service was kind of slow, everyone seemed nice?
Review Source:Really enjoyed Rosie's!
First time there and it was a great experience. Â Service was quick and very friendly and food was served quickly and tasted fantastic. Â I had the bacon wrapped pork loin and the wife had the penne vodka we were both extremely pleased with our meals and will go back again for sure.
I've been going to Rosie's Wine Bar since the beginning, nearly four years ago. In fact, I had my first date with my boyfriend of nearly four years at this restaurant.
The wine selection is what brought us here in the first place, and continues to bring us back. They have over 50 wines by the glass, and are willing to give you a two ounce pour for $2.
The best part about Rosie's is that the you pay retail price for a bottle of wine + a corkage fee. If you're a frequent customer, they will even waive the $15 corkage fee.
The food is pretty good. I'd recommend the Asian bacon wrapped pork or the tuna steak.
The chocolate tasting is great.
I've been to Rosie's a few times now and have had mixed experiences. However, the last time I was there will truly be my LAST! Â The servers were inattentive, disengaged and overall RUDE! Â My husband and I were there on a date night- paying for a babysitter no less- and had a mediocre meal with 2 nasty women behind the bar. Â I'm big on customer service and in my book, Rosie's gets an F.
Review Source:I had a good experience at Rosie's and would highly recommend!!
We chose this spot for "Date Night" On a Wednesday. Our waitress was excellent and we enjoyed the House Pinot Noir. It was yummy.
The place was bumpin' for a Wednesday night. They were having a cigar Event, which was really cool. I don't smoke but I really appreciate a business creating events to get people in their establishment as a fellow business owner myself. It seemed like a good way to lure in wine drinkiners as well as cigar smokers.
The food was a little pricey, but good. I had a chicken dish and my boyfriend had the Tuna steak. both were prepared well and had a lot of veggies, which was like. Very generous portions. We both had lunch for the next day.
I also really liked the postcard marketing with all of their October Halloween/Fall Events. I would definitely come back here. I think next time, I will bring some friends along as well!!
The Garwood/Westfield Area doesn't have anything like this place, it is worth checking out!
I'm going to preface this review by saying that I've been to this wine bar over 5 times from 2009-2010 and the food and drinks were righteous.
That said we returned for the first time today (9/17/11) and I have to say my meal was categorically in the top 3 WORST MEALS that I've ever had in my life.
There was olive oil on the tables, yet we received no bread service. That was pathetic. If you run out of bread at least take off the olive oil.
FOOD WAS SOOOO BAD, I didn't eat any of my meal and went out and got a White Castles meal afterwards. The White Castle burgers had more color and were better cooked than the hard rubbery, and gray chunks of meat used as an excuse for sliders that were served to us later on.
Service in general is slow as molasses here and normally we don't mind as the food was good. But this time I was visibly agitated and could not control myself.
We started with the chicken fingers with honey mustard. It looked okay at surface level but when we cut the chicken fingers all three of the pieces of chicken were RAW in the middle. Not undercooked mind you, we are talking pink and RAW!!! I was disturbed at this point but then thought it was a fluke.
The the salads came, a mediterranean salad and caesar salad. Â The med salad was ok, not their best work according to my dinner guest. Â The Caesar Salad was devoid of anchovy flavor. It was doused in dressing which was white in color. The Caesar Salad was lemony and tasted of sweet miracle whip. Â If this is Rosie's take on Caesar Salad, the Chef should hang himself. Then in his afterlife should haunt the owners who you would think would come and at least excuse the chef for sending out raw chicken fingers.
Next up was my French onion soup. The HEINOUS bowl of whatever was given to me was inedible. It was incredibly sweet, the onions weren't carmelized and there was no hint of beef stock, oregano and spices or red wine vinegar. French onion soup is not something that even a TGIF's screws up, I don't know how the cook at Rosie's could mess this up that bad. The onion soup tasted like OILY boiled sweet onion water. It was disgusting. Â At this point, there was still no sign of management.
My dinner guests sliders came and she was trying to get me to eat as I'm diabetic and at this point we were 90 minutes into a dinner service. Mind you we ordered two salad, a soup and sliders. And thus far everything was inedible.
She ate two bites of the sliders and tried to convince me to eat, I looked at the burgers and the meat was grey, it was so overcooked that the little patties were hard and rubbery and inedible. The burger bun was also stale.
All in all the ENTIRE MEAL was a total loss. The only saving grace to the meal was my diet coke and my fiance's two cocktails. By the end of the meal, still no sign of management. This is just pathetic to have no accountability for putting out such awful food.
We won't ever come here again, until we get a sense from yelp that something has changed and the management actually gives a damn about their business.
A disappointing restaurant. The front-of-house service is disorganized, and the kitchen turns out food at a snail's pace. Barely edible food.
Not enticed by the lackluster menu, I ordered the simplest things on it. Artichoke dip with pita, and two beef cheeseburger sliders, with french fries. After a long wait, the artichoke dip came out. It was more like soup, totally puréed, with a skin on top from the broiler. I was pretty hungry by then, so I ate it. I was then served two dried out, rubbery patties on buns with American cheese that looked and tasted like they were cooked the day before. The fries were undercooked, limp and unseasoned.
A woman at a nearby table eating a stuffed chicken breast was unable to cut it with a table knife, and had to ask for a serrated steak knife. The party next to us, who had arrived maybe ten minutes after we sat down, had not received any food by the time we had finished our meal, and were getting up to leave.
While it seems like a nice place to have a glass of wine, I would not recommend eating here.
I went to Rosie's Sunday with my partner in pedicures (and wine) to unwind after a looong shopping trip. We decided to be seated outside and the waitress came to us immediately. There was a couple seated across from us having sangria so we decided to order some. The sangria was on the sweet side. We ordered bruschetta, sweet potato fries and fried zucchini sticks (not for me but for my pal). The bruschetta was drowned in balsamic vinegar, it tasted like the tomatoes had been sitting in balsamic vinegar for weeks, it was actually hard to eat. The sweet potato fries were a little under done and I have no comment on the zucchini sticks because the very thought of them is revolting to me so I am biased. The atmosphere and the service was awesome but the food was subpar and sangria was "like lemonade" as my pal said. I may go back but I'll just stick to the wine and skip the food and sangria.
Review Source:My boyfriend and I came here for dinner last night. Â We'd both been wanting to try it out, as it looks cute from the outside and is always crowded. Â I made a reservation a few days in advance for Saturday night. Â When we arrived at the restaurant, in the middle of the monsoon, we were told that they didn't have a reservation in the book for us. Â There were still three or four tables open, but the gentleman told us that many people at the bar had just paid and we should sit there until a table was ready for us. Â Well, we waited about fifteen minutes and no one moved from the bar. Â He came back over and seated us at a table that was open when we initially walked in, so I was confused, but happy to be seated.
Our waitress brought over water and bread. Â The bread was good and there was olive oil on the table for dipping, which I enjoyed. Â We asked for two glasses of the $9 pinot noir and were told they were out but had a comparable one, so we went with that. Â The wine was excellent and reasonably priced.
We ordered potato skins for an appetizer and were displeased. Â They arrived with the skins very burned. Â I don't mind crispy but they were black in parts and all we could taste was burned potato skin.
I chose the grilled chicken parm for my meal. Â It came with penne in tomato sauce. Â The pasta was very good and I wound up filling up on that more than the chicken itself. Â The chicken was grilled, and it was so dry. Â Not appetizing. Â There was a good amount of mozzarella, but it just was not a great meal. Â My boyfriend liked his NY strip steak.
Overall, I was disappointed with this restaurant. Â I was displeased that the gentleman did not apologize for losing our reservation. Â I liked the wine and the ambiance, but I don't think we'll be back.
I first experienced the food from Rosie's Wine Bar at a street fair in Westfield back in the summer of 2010. Â However, because of their somewhat odd hours, I did not have the opportunity to actually experience the restaurant until this past weekend. Â Rosie's hours seem to favor later hours, and by then I've usually done all my shopping and headed home, but on this particular chilly night my girlfriend and I stopped into Rosie's warm and inviting restaurant for a nice dinner.
Wide, with a combination of tables and a long bar set with dark wood and dim lighting, Rosie's is quite a pleasant sight to drink in. Â The bottles of wine that literally line one wall to the other are quite a sight to behold in a restaurant. Â You can actually buy bottles to go or enjoy them in the restaurant, and each shelf was broken down by region just like a wine shop. Â I really liked this touch.
We were seated by our lovely hostess who really poured on the happy. Â Good for her, because as far as I could tell the entire front of the house was being managed by the bartender and her alone. Â I really felt a pang of sympathy for both of them. Â When I first arrived the crowd was sparse, but as time went along it grew and grew and I saw both of them running around trying to keep up. Â Much to their credit, they managed to do so. Â I was impressed.
We ordered a few dishes to try, so let's go down the list shall we?
Hummus with pita bread and vegetables: Â The hummus has a fantastic garlic flavor. Â I already enjoyed that but when I added some of the olive oil at the table, it turned into something else wonderfu. Â The pita bread was heated and crispy on the edges and the vegetables were bright and crispy. Â Very nice.
Crab Cake appetizer: Â I loooove crab cakes. Â This one was about the size of a burger and served on a bed of arugula. Â With the greens the flavor was really good. Â Inside the crab cake was something potent (could have been wasabi or horseradish) that added a wonderful depth to the dish.
Mediterranean Salad with chicken: Â This was the only disappointment of the night. Â It was servicable, but nothing about the salad was distinctive. Â The dressing was sweet and tart and the greens were nice, but it didn't rock my world.
Goat cheese and beet salad: Â As disappointing as the mediterranean salad was, this one blew us both away. Â The greens were tasty, the goat cheese was dropped quite generously on the salad and *toasted* hazelnuts just pulled it all together. Â This salad was absolutely fantastic!
House Riesling (2007): Â I tried a glass of this with dinner and they were generous with the glass. It tasted wonderfully light and sweet which is what I look for in my Riesling. Â It was balanced and I nursed it for quite some time not wanting to gulp it all down!
Rosie's is worthy of all the praise and I really enjoyed my time there. Â I'm eager for my next visit when I may try the grilled cheese with apples!
We're new to the area and spotted this on a drive-by so we went last Saturday to check it out. We arrive a bit before 8pm and it was busy. When I asked how long for a table, the gentleman said 25 minutes. I was doubtful, but we found a place to stand and got a couple of glasses of wine while we waited. The only bump - the bartender brought mine and then totally forgot about my husband, but he was apologetic.
Lo and behold, about 25 minutes went by and our table was ready. There were only 2 servers and 1 bartender on and they were running to and fro. However, our meal was taken in a fair amount of time, the meal didn't seem delayed to the table, and everything was really, really tasty.
I loved the menu and the specials and we had a hard time choosing what to order. I understand a slider is a little thing, but I could eat the pulled pork sliders everyday. And any server that can give me a perfect rec on the wine to go with a pork slider is worthy of extra points.
Not a huge dessert selection, but the cannoli was pretty good. I just wish we had either come early or were able to stay later. After 9:30pm it seemed to quiet down a bit, so it might be nice to linger at the bar after dinner. A definite re-visit for Rosie's.
I love rosiesss I go here at least 3 times a week the food is great as well as the service. for those that have had a bad experience i can't even see this happening at rosies. I def think its worth another try :P I live in san francisco for 3 years so i was so happy when i moved back to have a wine bar only a town over! It can't get any better then this!
Review Source:I was looking for a local wine bar and Rosie's definitely hits the mark. Nice selection of wine, beer, and food. Ordered a couple glasses of wine, which were nicely filled : ) and a cheese plate. While we didn't order any entrees the food that I saw come out of the kitchen looked pretty good. Â
Overall a nice neighborhood gem with friendly bartenders and a great place to take a date and drink some wine.
Awful experience; I'll NEVER go back! A very mismanaged place, with lack of communication between servers/bartenders.
We were escorted to a table without them asking how many were in our party and they didn't even ask if we had a reservation (which we did). It took us 15 minutes to order our drinks and when we did, there was a lack of communication between the bartender (who eventually got us drinks) and our (horrible) server who offered us drinks (after 20 minutes).
We waited a terribly long time for our appetizer, and in the meantime, asked if we could have the same bread basket we noticed on all the other tables around us. Yes, we had to ASK for the complimentary bread, but then the server said "Oh, we don't have any...our bread lady only brought half the usual order". Ok, fine. Until the next table sits down, orders drinks (right away) and then gets served a bread basket. We were BLATANTLY lied to! Then, the server proceeds to read them specials and soup of the day...huh, that would've been REALLY nice to know before we ordered. But no, we got no mention of ANY specials.
Our appetizer finally comes out and it's burnt to a crisp...I mean CHARRED. We wait, again, for our main course and when it finally comes, the Chicken a la Rosie is soggy and the pork loin is WAY overcooked and terribly dry...and it was wrapped in bacon! That should NOT be dry! The food was mediocre at best.
Meanwhile, we haven't even seen our server since he took our order. We sat with dirty plates in front of us for 20 minutes while the owner and the bartender fawned over the tables on each side of us. FINALLY, the owner comes and takes our plates at which point we ask to make sure he's the owner and he says "yes, unless you had a bad experience", like he knew he was running an awful operation. So I pointed out the lack of specials read, the blatant lie about the bread, the fact that we had been sitting there for the past 20 minutes with dirty plates, etc and he says "oh, well, we're down a server" and walked away! He didn't even care! I'm sorry, I worked in the hospitality industry for 10+ years...that is NOT how you manage a restaurant. Not that we were trying or expecting to get anything free. But if someone complains, especially about THAT many things, you say "oh, the appetizer/first round of drinks/dessert is on me" Â and you try and remedy it. Â At least apologize for crying out loud! At that point, I was fuming and couldn't wait to get out of there. And to add insult to injury, the gratuity was automatically tacked on because we had a coupon (thankfully, otherwise I REALLY would've felt ripped off). So our server who we saw literally ONCE, who lied to us and ignored us still got an 18% tip. WORST. EXPERIENCE. EVER. Honestly. I've never had a worse experience at a supposed "nice" restaurant. Absolutely DO NOT recommend! For two of us, our bill was $75 (pre-coupon)...there's no way that meal was worth even a quarter of that price.
This is first and foremost a wine bar, and the food is very much an afterthought. Â Very good wine selection, with retail price wine and a $15 corkage fee.
If you are looking for a good place to get a drink (they have liquor and beer as well) with nice decor and an adult atmosphere this is a decent choice, but for dinner the menu is very limited and the food only fair. Â Considering the choices five minutes away in Westfield, which also gives you the option of walking around and enjoying a longer evening, Rosie's doesn't stand out.
This joint is very, very small. Which can add to its charm, or frustrate your customers, On the border of garwood/westfield. Clientele includes the residents of the over 55 community to which its connected. Mostly couples. Not many children when i have been there which is a plus.  On a Friday or sat night, the cougars come out  to play.
 Very, Very good wine selection. Also wine is retail price, just charges 15 bones for corkage, which is nice for what would be an expensive bottle somewhere else. Above states that only serves beer or wine, place DOES have liquor. Also a very good beer menu, lots of tasty micro brews. FYI- not going to get a bud draft here, or dudes with mullets and jean shorts..
I wish Rosies had more of a small plate offering as well as better appetizers. Â I would not recommend this place if you are just looking for a good meal. I would recommend it if you were looking for good service, a friendly mature crowd, and a good overall drinking experience.
Looked like they started to set up for outdoor seating at the end of the summer. This could be a benefit if its set up nice, but realistically not sure if would want to face North ave. Â Looking forward to seeing if this will eliminate the overcrowding at the bar by being able to seat people quicker. Will have to see next spring I guess.....
Nice place to come to and sip some wine with a friend. Â The view -- well ... there is none; you get to see who is driving into and out of the Shoprite Supermarket. Â The food is not unusual, and for the price it is not worth it -- we had two glasses of wine, no appetizer, two steak dinners (i.e., meat, mashed potatoes, no vegetables), and no desserts for $67 (before the tip). Â Be aware that they closed relatively early, so do not go there for a late meal.
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